I have the puce thumb of death. Luckily, my Gardyn is very forgiving! Watching my plants growing and thriving has been a thrill and although you can certainly get more sophisticated with custom food mixtures and your own seeds, for me, the simplicity has been a Godsend. My husband and I are vegan so we go through a lot of plants — so much that I recently purchased a second Gardyn so I can grow peppers and herbs in one and dedicate the other to just salad greens. The Gardyn system is clean, easy to use and visually stunning. It makes me smile every day. If you hate throwing out greens that go bad before you can use them, you willlove the luxury of picking fresh greens one meal at a time. I have thoroughly enjoyed my Gardyns and cannot imagine a better way to enjoy fresh greens, herbs and peppers year round!

Overall I like the app- it’s easy to use and highlights all system settings and environmental conditions well. I like the camera views for remote monitoring. The ycube ordering is nice and easy, though the selection is always pretty limited vs the website. Taking one point off because Kelby, the virtual assistant, is basically useless. The AI missed all of my plants burning because I fed them too soon (well after Kelby told me to feed them, though… gardyn plant food is just extremely strong and dangerous for young plants) and when I was on vacation one of the tubes split and an entire column of plants wilted and were all super droopy and sad/nearly dead- Kelby said literally nothing about plants being basically dead, while I watched sadly on the camera view for 3-4 days. When I got back I fixed the tube and all but one plant recovered somewhat. still there’s pretty much no point to the AI, you have to be vigilant, and the advice it gives you is not applicable 75% of the time.

I will make this short but I think it’s a very important point for everyone to consider who is buying these Gardyn units which are quite an investment. The app is so poorly designed that the interface causes you to potentially kill your crop each time you open it. I wish I could share with you how many times I have inadvertently turned the lights off and also the water off without any intention of doing so. This has caused drastic results for my crops which were doing so well. Be very careful when touching anything on the homepage of the app. My water function had been turned off enough times for the plants to dry out when I hadn’t inspected them for a few days. The unit itself I is quite sound, but this application that it completely relies on is very unreliable, and very confusing. Instead of having a clear toggle switch for on and off or another mechanism to ensure the specific intention of a user,The vital functions of the product are disabled or enabled with the lightest finger touch.

Every so often I get reminder to do whatever. The app suggests videos to watch; all I have to do is click on the arrow, except there is no arrow, and I can’t access the videos. By some inexplicable miracle, one video did play, but when I went to play it again to check something, it had disappeared.Additionally, Gardyn gives no instruction on how to purchase more plant food, or even any alternatives I could use. I don’t know what I’m going to do when the food runs out. You can choose your monthly allotment of ycups, but are given no direction on where to buy any accessories. The “shop now” button on their website only directs you to the system itself, nothing else.Thirdly, the advertise cherry tomatoes, but they don’t actually sell them. When I inquired about this I received some mealy-mouthed response about “testing” and that I could buy my own seeds, yet they continue to advertise them as an option on the site.